Update 016: Community First
Community First
Thank you for all the notes of encouragement you continue to send from around the world. It’s a great lift as we travel from city to city spreading the excitement about BDXAlliance as we approach launch. Also, thank you Gianluca D. for your questions. They help me to understand when we may not be clear enough in our messages.
Questions from our Community
Gianluca asked what our next steps are. Here’s the response I gave him.
1. ICO fundraising to finish development of our exchange and mobile wallet.
● If we reach our hard cap, we’ll apply for an eMoney license so we can issue credit and debit cards and pursue a crypto banking license.
2. Begin launching green/sustainability ICOs that have access to a €5 billion fund with Praestentia CleanTech, our partner on all green (sustainability) projects. For each ICO launched you’ll receive tokens for free. You can also invest in these projects, as the due diligence on the technology and business is impressively thorough.
3. To strengthen liquidity, we’ll grow our portfolio of coins on our exchange via green ICO projects.
4. Pipeline: Continue signing deals to continue evolving our coin’s utility.
Another good question sent to me was to explain more about investing in our ICO from as little as €20*. Typically investments have minimum thresholds that are still pretty big. We believe everyone should have equal opportunities, including to invest. So, by lowering our minimum, we’re bringing equality and more opportunity to more people.
* Minimum investment amount for those of you in SEPA countries. (For investors in non-SEPA countries, please kindly note that €500 is the minimum amount. If you try to purchase a lower amount, your transaction will be declined.)
Amsterdam Stock Exchange
I was privileged to be given a tour. The Exchange is such an iconic and beautiful building. Interestingly, there’s also a crypto fund for those who want to invest €100K or more. I spent several hours with that team geeking out about all things blockchain and crypto. They were also sharing with me their trading strategies and development work to tap into multiple exchanges for better liquidity. They’re all former traders with 10+ years of experience in traditional assets, so it’s really cool to see these institutional types getting into crypto.
Explaining the Universe
We’re excited about the launch of our a series of videos, helping to explain what makes us tick, sharing ideas and keeping fresh! We may not be Carl Sagan, but we like to think we’re pretty close when it comes crypto and blockchain, and hope you agree. Here’s our first, What is BDXAlliance? Check out the video just by clicking on the image.
Progress
We’re on schedule for our launch. Thanks to our experiences at the Amsterdam Summit last week, I feel we’re edging ever closer to really hitting home with our ecosystem. After the positive energy of that great city and event, I was fortunate to sit down with like-minded investors and peers to actually talk for a change, not just pitch. This gave me a great deal of time to elaborate on touch points bullet-pointed during pitches. These friendly chats also led to even greater interest from potential investors — three, to be exact — so we’ll be following up on those. And did I mention, yet more partners are interested in jumping on the BDX train? Watch this space!
Just a reminder of what’s on offer and where we’re at:
- 90m tokens
- €20 minimum investment* (Note: no else is doing this!)
- 28 November launch.
Crypto and Blockchain Use Cases — Why They Matter
In the world of blockchain, we’re starting to see all sorts of smart contracts, coins and services that are safer and more secure, and that we can all get behind. Let’s take a look:
- Government and electoral: Smart contracts for voting systems, providing security beyond eyeballs and human verification
- Mobile payments: Banks in Japan are starting to use Ripple as a faster real-time solution for payments
- Insurance: Based on a system of verification and authenticity, blockchain is trustless on a trustless platform, meaning insurance giants are looking for and have found unbeatable solutions to hard (and costly) issues
- Carbon offsetting: IBM and China’s Fabric Labs are measuring and reporting on carbon use with authority and neutrality
- Enterprise: Microsoft uses Ethereum. Who knew?
- Border control: A perennial fave — how do you solve a problem like people? Blockchain to the rescue…
- Healthcare: The logistics and protection of everything from dosages to trademarks are taken care of by a variety of systems with a beating heart in blockchain.
And so much more! With the IMF advising banks on taking a long-term crypto view, it’s pretty clear blockchain and crypto are going to be everywhere for a long time to come. And don’t forget, if you’d like to get more involved with BDXAlliance, we’d love to hear from you.
Next Up
Back to Malta, and we’re excited about speaking at Malta’s Financial Services Authority (MFSA) event hosted by the Institute of Directors. If you want to know what we’ll be doing and what we’re talking about — why not follow us, or click on that link and meet us there?
